Post Nap Hair

Bug cranked out a 4 hour nap before we woke him up yesterday. He didn't take a nap on Saturday after soccer, which usually wears him out. He went down around 2 and I finally woke him up at 6. He went to bed around 7:30 and still slept about 12 hours last night. Here area few pics of his hair. And GO PATRIOTS!!!

Snuggle Time

Every morning, Bug wakes up early. He's usually up before 0600, sometimes way too early like 0400 but on a good day is 0530. When he wakes up he stands on the end of his bed and cries until I hear him and come and get him. I'm not quite sure why he cries and have thought about telling him to start yelling for us to come. I'd rather wake up to his 2 year old yelling voice than crying. Anyway, I got in his room and get him and turn off his noise, yes he still sleeps with white noise, maybe another thing we need to work on. He hand me both of his blankies, his B doggie, his cup and makes sure he has a good nuk. I throw the blankies over my shoulder and once I pick him up he snuggles into my shoulder. I take him into our bedroom and put him down on the bed and he runs over and says good morning to daddy and gives him a kiss. While he's doing that, I fill his cup up with his morning coffee; his soy milk supplement, really...but you'd think it's his morning coffee. I open the doors to our armoire and daddy turns on Disney Junior. I get back in bed and bug usually snuggles in with me. He lays his head on my chest and I wrap my arms around him and sometimes hold one of his feet; when he's in a foot holding mood, we'll even switch which foot I'm holding. On a good day, he'll lay there for a long while and daddy and I will usually fall back to sleep. I've caught Bug falling back to sleep once in a while but when he startles awake, he gets a bit antsy, so it's usually better for him to stay awake. Buzz Lightyear sleeps in our room on a pile of pillows. Somewhere along the way in the morning Bug will ask for Buzz, so daddy gets Buzz and we resume snuggle positions. At some point Bug will switch and lay on daddy and I'll cover him with his blankets. During the week, Timmy Time is on a 0530, though sometimes they change the programming which gets confusing. When Timmy Time is over, Bug always says he wants more and I'll say to him we'll see what's on next, and the quiet time usually continues. This may very well be my favorite part of the entire day. We do our best to not rush through this time and sleep or relax and enjoy it as much as possible. There's really no better way to start your day! And on the weekends, sometimes we'll get a bonus....Roo!! Roo sleeps in....for those of you without kids, that means as late as 0830 but 0730 is pretty normal for him. Family snuggle time is awesome, I wouldn't trade it for anything, a good consolation prize for the early rising!!

Home

After more than 12 hours on the road today, a flat tire caused by a nail and 2 other short stops, we are home from Maine. The boys did not enjoy the car ride at all. They were good little troopers and went right to bed when we got home. In fact, Roo fell asleep just a little after 7, you know, his bedtime, but in the car. Bug really wasn't thrilled about the ride at all and got to run around a bunch while we got the tire changed, have some soda (no, we don't normally do that) and then was good until about 3 miles from home. Whew, it was a long day. We have no a/c but Gene will be here early in the morning to fix it. Goodnight!

Monday Blues

Monday's aren't really fun for anyone. It's a rude awakening after a fun weekend. I woke Roo up this morning and got him dressed and ready to go. As I was getting Bug into the van, Roo waited on the stairs. I called for him to get into his seat. He answered by saying, "I'm so sad." That sounded really sad and I was worried so I asked him why he was sad. He replied, "Because you woke me up." Must be terrible to be awakened to play for the day!

So anyway, I'm sure Roo will be excited for the next few Monday's where I won't have to wake him up.

Enough About Snow...Let's Give Baxter a Hug

I think I posted a while back about Baxter's head bump.  We dropped him off last night at the vet for them to do surgery today to remove it.  After the surgery the vet called and said everything went well, that she thinks it's a fatty lipoma but she's not positive so she's going to send it off for testing.  She said his heart worm was negative and he did well with his vaccines.  And for once, we didn't get lectured about his weight, but that's probably because we switched vets.  

But, because today is a snow day, again, they asked that we pick him up at 1100 in case the weather got worse and we weren't able to get there later in the day.  He was still really groggy from the anesthesia when he got home and though the boys were so excited to see him, we wanted to keep them away so they didn't touch his boo boo; they surgery was right next to his left eye.

It took a while to settle everyone down and Baxter really struggled.  He didn't want to lay down for some reason so he was fighting falling asleep while sitting.  I felt really bad for him, at the same time, it was pretty funny to watch him catch himself before he toppled over.

Anyway, he's doing a ton better now.  Tomorrow when we go to work, we're going to put the cone on him so he can't scratch it during the day.  He actually only tried to rub it in the snow, but other than that, hasn't gone after it at all, so he'll probably be really mad at us for putting it on.  But, he's a dog and we need to protect him from himself.

Hugs to you Baxter, we're happy you made it through your tough day with flying colors!

Shouldn't Be Laughing...

Roo just woke up.  He never wakes during the night.  So daddy just went up to his room to figure out why he was crying.  We figured it was something he ate tonight; you know, he drank some of the marinara sauce and had some soy ice cream a bit before bed.  So daddy asked him what was wrong.  What did Roo say, "my feet hurt."  Of course!  So daddy rubbed his feet, Roo thanked him and now Roo's going back to sleep.  I watched/listened to the whole thing over the monitor.  I was cracking up when daddy came back downstairs.  We shouldn't laugh, but it seemed funny.  Poor little guy, he must be going through a growth spurt.

Party Time

This weekend has been full of sugar filled fun. Roo didn't want to wear a Halloween costume this year...you know, he's two so if he doesn't want to so something he lets you know. So he helped Uncle Nate, Daddy and Mommy pass out candy to all the trick or treaters. This was fun for Roo because he was able to enjoy a few tootsie rolls. Since we decided to start daylight savings time a day early, we didn't mind him staying up a bit later Friday night. Needless to say, all the sugar made it hard for him to fall asleep.

Today we went to Connor's 4th birthday party at the bowling alley. Roo took an unusally long nap so we got to the party an hour late. That was actually a good thing since he didn't bowl. He did a great job sitting with all the big kids eating his dinner. But, what were mommy and daddy thinking letting him have punch. It didn't occur to us until he was running around like a maniac after the party that maybe we let him have too much sugar; and yes, that's Roo eating a piece of green candy on top of his punch! At least he didn't eat his cake!

So now, Roo is laying up in his bed singing and trying his hardest to beat the sugar and fall asleep. Poor little guy, it just didn't occur to us how much we really regulate his sugar intake. So a cup of punch, whoa, that's a ton of sugar running through his veins. Oh well, he did have a blast at the party and was such a good boy, and all the little girls loved him ;) We'll see in the morning how this impact the success of Operation Fall Back.

Big Brother

No, this isn't about The Roo becoming a big brother. This is about the nice video camera mommy and daddy installed in his room. You see, The Roo has entered the terrible two's and one night last week when we put him to bed after a long battle, he decided that he was just so mad that he would climb out of his crib and sleep elsewhere in his room. We're not exactly sure where he slept that night but he was lounged comfortably in his recliner in the morning when we went in to get him.

The Roo is an excellent climber so before everyone gets upset about his climbing antics, we've actually watched him climb out and he does it very safely. That said, he doesn't normally climb out but that night definitely got us thinking that we'd really like to see what he does in his room when he's going to bed and waking in the morning. So, we installed the camera and mommy's viewing pleasure for the evening is a cute little sleeping Roo in a little Roo ball with his cover on him.

It's a good thing he's got the cover on him. As some of you are aware, as a part of being 2 now, Roo has decided that he doesn't like to wear pjs to bed anymore. We make him wear a diaper, that's a battle he won't win, but we decided not to worry about wearing pjs. So his new bedtime attire is either a diaper, shorts and socks or just a diaper and socks. Goofy huh?!

Mommy's excited for the 5am version of this spying fun. The Roo has been waking in the 5 o'clock hour and falling back to sleep; this happens sometimes when he's teething. It'll be fun to watch what he's doing during this time!

Long Time No Blog.....

We knew early on that Baxter and The Roo would be the best of friends. Recently Baxter has taken to crying while The Roo is napping. For example, today The Roo took a really long afternoon nap...this was great for mom and dad, but not so much fun for Baxter. Baxter and The Roo play hard all weekend long and on Sunday nights, Baxter just crashes. This is also nice for mom and dad; an evening without licks!

Baxter's Ready to Play

So the tape measure was so much fun that The Roo decided to take his morning nap with it. I'm sure it was just as cuddly as his patchy bear. When he woke up, Baxter immediately looked at me with his big puppy dog eyes and said "hurry up slow poke, what are you waiting for, go get him so we can play some more." Silly mommy, how could you forget that Baxter's in charge!

Play Ball!

We went to Oneonta, NY for Mike and Jessica's wedding.  Roo did pretty good in the car considering what a terrible rider he is.  The weather was beautiful, considering it was August, and we had a lot of fun seeing family.  Roo was so good at the wedding; he stayed up way past his bedtime and was still really easy going.  We spent some time going to Cooperstown too.  He and dada got matching Red Sox t-shirts.  He also had a ton of fun pushing around his stroller.  One of his favorite moments was watching a bunch of motorcycles drive by, they just captured his attention.  On the way home, a very kind woman reassured me that he would indeed slim down once he started moving around more, because, you know, we were so worried!  All in all, it was a great trip and we all had fun!

Merry Christmas

The morning of Roo's first Christmas was spent driving around in the car so he could get a good nap in.  He was a little cranky when we opened presents and but had fun.  Later that day what I now refer to as the 'grandparent intervention' happened.  All of the grandparents thought it was time for us to stop driving Roo around to get him to sleep and that it was also time for him to stop sleeping in the swing and start sleeping in the crib.  After less than 15 minutes of crying, Roo fell asleep in his crib and took a really long nap.  This is about when he started sleeping all the way through the night.  The grandparents were just lucky that Roo was ready...and that we were tired enough to try this method.